Jeane Coakley caught up with both Rex Ryan and John Idzik at the Jets Town Hall yesterday. Rex talks about his expectations for OTAs, rookie/veteran relationships and how Calvin Pryor looked during rookie camp. Idzik then talks about his impressions of the rookie class so far.

I was at this event last night and it was pretty cool. Idzik went through the draft evaluation process, showed some film on every prospect and Rex went over some plays defensive plays. It's easy to see why guys love to play for Rex, he's real passionate about the game. It's like when I watch Rocky and get all amped up, start doing push ups and feel like I ca run through a wall. There was one heckler in the audience who asked Idzik about our corner situation and it was pretty funny, even Idzik had a laugh. Eventually the guy said a little too much and was quietly reprimanded. All in all it was great...The only bad thing I have to say about it is that they only let the first 50 people take pictures with Rex.

What I really need to know is what his footwear choices on his vacation are going to be. Does he have any new Calvin Pryor tatoos? and most importantly, How are we going to cover anyone without any CBs?

@tsjc68@Tequila Joe Tsjc, there is this season ticket holder who I've seen before at other events and he's quite the character. He always wears sunglasses and always seems to be in the middle of it. Idzik was showing some footage I believe about one of our corners (I think it was Patterson if I remember correctly but I did drink a little tequila last night so it's a little fuzzy) and right after he was done talking about the corner the guy stood up and said something like "so who we getting to play corner" totally dissmissing the fact the Patterson or whoever Idzik was talking about was capable of being the guy. Idzik laughed as well as the rest of us because the guy's timing and delivery was flawless. I think Idzik said we'll talk a little more about that in a minute to appease him. He also got up a couple of other times in the middle of Idziks speech to make comments but like I said he was greeted by a someone within the organization and didn't make a peep the rest of the night. It was a good time...

Rex issues apology about missing cut down day and going to Clemson game:

I and the entire Jets organization have been involved in massive cover-up that attempted to cover for my obvious dereliction of duty.

I ask that all in the media, especially Manish Mehta of the NYDN can accept my apology. I promise to be forthright with the media moving forward. Again it was a mistake to try to cover it up and I ask that you judge me on my actions moving forward. Not the senseless actions that have brought us to this moment. Thank you

@tsjc68@haroldTo show how times have changed, the Stingley hit burnished Tatum's reputation, which culminated in his best-selling book "They Call Me Assassin." To say that he wasn't contrite about paralyzing a fellow NFL player would be a humongous understatement.